I wrote a few days ago about the new Flip Mino HD camera that I got to do my daily video’ing.  I did my research, looked for the best deals, and made sure that was what I wanted before I purchased it.  I was ready, and decided to make the purchase.

Just my luck:  less than a week after buying the Mino HD, flip introduces a new Flip Ultra HD with a bigger LCD screen, twice as much storage, and rechargable AA batteries for about $40 less than I paid for my Mino.  To add salt to the wound, Best Buy (where I purchased my Mino) dropped the prices on the Mino HD I have by $30.

Luckily for me, it fell within my return window, I saved the box and everything (which I don’t always do), and I’m a “Silver” rewardzone member so I don’t have to pay restocking fees for open items.  I took the mino back and got a refund.  My local Best Buy is out of stock on the new Ultra HDs and they won’t have them in until next week, so I’m cameraless until then.  I will probably have the strangest things happen to me in the next few days (that I would like to video) just to further agitate me on the whole situation.

I don’t know who is handling the product lauches for Flip, but they could have done a much better job.  There was no announcement, no buildup, nothing.  Someone just went into best buy and bought one of the new Ultras and it was then all over the internet.  Late yesterday evening Flip finally made an official announcement after everyone already knew about the product launch.  If they had waited until Tuesday to announce, it would have been outside of my return window and I would have been furious.